Archive - Prefaces

The Ne'erdowell

Three poems I have made about myself

Oct 3, 2024 •

August 2024

It's not just a calculator

The fact that we had a global emergency that became a professor emergency only four years ago should not obscure the reality that genuine pedagogical…

Aug 28, 2024 •

July 2024

I got my start as a non-academic writer in 2018 with a piece for The Hedgehog Review called “Be Nice.” The essay was pretty well-received and gave me…

Jul 2, 2024 •

March 2024

Mar 5, 2024 •

February 2024

on four different ways to lie to yourself

This semester I have been co-teaching a class on ancient and modern accounts of science.

Feb 13, 2024 •

January 2024

Should you go to graduate school?

The question recurs online with significant regularity.

Jan 25, 2024 •

and thinking about it with Kierkegaard

Jan 18, 2024 •

December 2023

prying open tautologies

My sister-in-law once had a cat named Harry.

Dec 14, 2023 •

how I made friends in my thirties

now unpaywalled at the The Hedgehog

Dec 1, 2023 •

November 2023

October 2023

why Matty can't read

on the screen, that is

Oct 24, 2023 •

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